IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 1635: Representing Networks and Entanglements, II: Courtly and Religious Networks
Thursday 6 July 2023, 11.15-12.45
| Sponsor: | Bristol Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol |
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| Organiser: | Marianne J. Ailes, Department of French, University of Bristol |
| Moderator/Chairs: | Marianne J. Ailes, Department of French, University of Bristol Stephen Bull, Department of English University of Bristol |
| Paper 1635-a | Representing Northern French Networks in Tournament Romance (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Social History |
| Paper 1635-b | 'Une foiz a la cort le roi': Contrasting Representations of Courts in Gautier d'Arras and Chrétien de Troyes (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Social History |
| Paper 1635-c | Christian Pilgrimage Networks and Their Peripheries (Language: English) Index terms: Lay Piety, Religious Life |
| Abstract | This session contains three papers from scholars and different career stages exploring actual networks and their representations in literature in a courtly and lay context: paper I examines the dynastic and familial networks revealed in the tournament romances le roman du Châtelain de Coucy et de la Dame de Fayel, Le Roman du Hem by Sarrasin and Tornoi de Chauvency; paper 2 looks at the entanglement of courtly networks in the romances of Chrétien de Troyes and Gautier d'Arras; paper 3 explores pilgrimage networks with their intermediary and peripheral sites en route. |